Unlikely superstars of US 2020 election: The mailbox, a sealed envelope

By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Nov 5 : The United States Postal Service mailbox with its signature blue and white logo, an inseparable fixture of the urban and rural American landscape, has emerged as the unlikely superstar of the 2020 US election.
Mail in ballots have shattered records for early voting, nudged the contest towards knife edge, angered a sitting US president, launched 300 lawsuits and offered citizens the comfort of an alternative method to vote during a raging pandemic that has killed more than 231,000 Americans and sickened more than 9 million in the homeland.
While the jury is out on whether Big Tech platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube were able to clamp down on election disinformation and scale the right stuff, the 101 of connectivity — snail mail — delivered in remarkable ways for the world’s richest country in what pundits are calling the “most consequential election of our lives”.
From tweeting at the TV, Trump switched to tweeting at the humble mailbox. There were multiple rants about mail voting, claiming without evidence that it is ripe for fraud and suggesting mail ballots may be “manipulated”.
“This is going to be a fraud like you’ve never seen,” Trump insisted. Americans dropped their rebuttals into verified USPS boxes. The envelopes piled up high from coast to coast, our jaws dropped to the floor.
Total early votes this year, before election day: 101,214,494, according to the University of Florida early vote statistics.